Dhruv ALH clocks 100,000 flying hours

[Gessler]

Advanced Light Helicopter Dhruv achieved a new milestone of flying one lakh
hours today. The land mark has been achieved in the early hours today with
the flying of helicopter IA 3104 of 301 Army Aviation Sqn (Spl Ops).

“One lakh hours flown by the machine is an awesome feat to achieve. It is a
dream machine for any pilot," an HAL release said, quoting Lt Col Kapil Agarwal
who completed the landmark flying hours. ALH is being operated by Indian Air
Force, Indian Army, Indian Navy, Coast Guard, BSF and state governments since
2002. Currently, more than 132 Dhruv helicopters are serving the Indian Defence
Forces. HAL has also built 12 civil variant Dhruv helicopters and they are being
used by its customers. The Ecuador Air Force (FAE) operates six Dhruv
helicopters with their President choosing to fly in them.

Tarmak007

 

[onionkiller]

great news. our engineer can make everything if they got chance.

 

[vsdave2302]

It is an awesome machine. We should start working on next version of this Machine. More powerful, more agile.

 

[neehar]

add this to the news

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[acetophenol]

Awesome! Made-In-India!
Perhaps this is the most succesful indigineous product!

 

[IND151]

Very good news

 

[kurup]

Amazing news ...... Dhruv is a very impressive machine .....

 

[[Bregs]]

This indigenous project has been a success

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[Indo-guy]

Awesome! Made-In-India!
Perhaps this is the most succesful indigineous product!

Indeed !

LOL ,now this is the open invitation for Trolls ...Sure !!!

Moment one utters word ' indigenous ' we can almost expect ' trolls ' to jump guns ...

 

[RPK]

 

[onionkiller]

Indeed !

LOL ,now this is the open invitation for Trolls ...Sure !!!

Moment one utters word ' indigenous ' we can almost expect ' trolls ' to jump guns ...

we Indians should not reply Pakistani and chines trolls, this is our fault we reply them.

 

[acetophenol]

Indeed !

LOL ,now this is the open invitation for Trolls ...Sure !!!

Moment one utters word ' indigenous ' we can almost expect ' trolls ' to jump guns ...

Do you remember when a Pakistani paper or website published a fake report that Ecuador was going to return the Dhruvs they brought?

 

[Abingdonboy]

 

[Raje amar]

Very good news.

Now we must focus on improving ALH to next level.
Also new product in the heavier class must be developed in the gained knowledge from ALH.